Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair)

Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist French

ca. 1500–1510

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544

Cut from larger compositions, the heads of Christ and Saint John the Baptist have been inserted into surrounds of various pieces of contemporaneous glass, cut and arranged to suggest clothing, pillars, vegetation, and sky. Active as a glass painter in Rouen and elsewhere in Normandy, the master, Arnold of Nijmegen, often relied on designs from Parisian workshops that were circulated around 1500.

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Provenance

Title: Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair)
Artist: Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist (French, active early 16th century)
Artist: Circle of Arnold of Nijmegen
Date: ca. 1500–1510
Culture: French, possibly Rouen
Medium: Colored, stained, and enemaled glass
Dimensions: Diameter: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm);
Frame: 28 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (73 × 50.2 cm)
Classification: Glass-Stained
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916
Object Number: 16.32.118
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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